Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-25
LYNCH VS.. vANDEyER.
The Notice as Served ON
General Vandever.
The GROUNDS Or COMPLAINT.
Why Joseph d. Lynch Thinks He
Has Been Elected Con-
gresham.


Certain papers hare published garoled
accounts of the contest and the follow
ing is given that the people Of the 9Th
Congressional District may know the
exact grounds on which Mr.. Lynch bases
his claims to the seat,
TO Hon. William Fasdersr:-
You are hereby notified that it Is my
intention and design to contest your
election 10 the House of Representatives.
OF the United States from the Sixth
Congressional District of the State OF
California, at the State election held in
the said State on the ID lsy of Novsm-
Der, 1856, and upon the following
grounds:
Promising that am an elsctor of the
State OF California, and was a candidate
against you ON the Democratic ticket nj
the last general election. held on Mo-
vember ID, 1856. for the Gtfies of Com
gresham, in and for the Sixth Congress
sional District of the State OF California
That large number, at least Two
hundred. of the voters wh9 w0Usi have
deposited their votes IN favor oil the ua-
dersigned, were deprived of their right
of suffrage under the following c1rcuma-
stances. Ia the Second Ward in the
city of Los Angeles. which belongs TO
this Congressional District, there are
about two thousand five hundred voters
At the opening of the political campaign
there never had been more than two
voting places in the ward The First
Ward was i'm much the same cNneisrsnn-
The White House precinct 0S said Sec
ond Ward was known to contain frwm
twelve 10 fourteen hundred voters In
view of these facts certalu prominent
Democrats went before tine Board OF
Supervisors of Los Angeles county, In
which Los Angeles city is sftusts GsaS1
Board being Overwhelmingly RspabBi-
canl and pleaded that facilities sh@Hla
be provided by which the ciriz@us mishs
be enabled to deposit their ballots with
expedition ard comfort. 1t WAS urged
that in this city of nearly fifty Thousand
inhabitants at least fifteen precincts
the city, while only small number OF
such precincts had been established
Nearly all OF the votiag places were
known to be greatly overcrowdsI. tine
Democratic precincts r0s0rS@usNy and
crushingly so. Tue Board OF SQpsrvl-
sors, instead of complying with tine re-
quest of the applicants aforesaid. COM
stituted only ten precincts two-shlrds
of the number asked for Instead of re
ieving the greatly oyerer0waeG Demns-
cratic precinct known rs the White
House precinct. by gross gerryman@er-
ing on the part of said Boar1 Of Swusr-
visors at least 80 more woes ws-e
thrown into this already &ensely crUwd-
ed district. During the whole 6zy Cf
the}election at these Democrats polls 4
long line of citizens were stretched fT0m
the ballot box down the street to the
corner, some tive or six hundred yarfs
distant. The time occupied by eztizsns
standing IN line to reach the polls -aas-
ed from forty-two to forsy-sight minutes
each. The voters in those wards are
generally business men, mechanics and
laborers. Numbers of them learned that
to exercise the right of suffrage meant
to wait nearly an hours and mot having
SO much leisure on their hands, ~eaa
back to their various svoeations- When
the polls closed at the end of the day
there were nearly one hundred voters ON
the spot, Democrats, who would have
were thus shut out. The Ds@0erasSe
party and the undersigned lost at least
two hundred and fifty votes by this
tried.
The Democratic party and the un-
dersgned were deprived OF n large nuun-
Der of votes, at least two hundred and
fifty, under the following circumstances
1t il law of this State tARt mn
person can vote at any elsetiom I'M Cali
fornia whose name is mot ON the Grg21
Register of the county I'm which he hives
Previous to the late sleetion the last
great registration was that of 1854 The
County Clerk of the county of Los An
geles, c. III. Dunsmoor, by advertise
ment in the papers and posting in public
places throughout the county, gave no.
titication that all names of qualified v0t-
ers in Los Angeles which were found ON
the register of 1854 would be transferred
to that of 1856, and that such eltazens
need give themselves no further trouble
about this matter. Acting ON rhis m@sR-
fcation citizens already registered c01fi-
IDENTIFY relled upon tin Ting their names
ON the new liss. 1t Is a fGet thai many
of such re registered citizens. to the muus-
ber of two hundred or more, discovered
on the day Of election that their namoes
had been omitted from the new list Ii
was impossible to get an inspection OF
the Great Register and it's slpplemsnts
prior to the day of election, so late was
it in getting out of the printers hands.
The undersigned charges that the grs.as
majority of such omissions were OF the
-
by showing . preconcerted and mAlign
purpose on the part OF some ONE to carry
the party for the Republican party by
means Of the above asserted fraua-
There are many precincts In TINS county
where as many as twenty Dsmocratae
voters were debarred from the sxsresse
Of their suffrage i'm this way LIN the
county there were in all probability Mt
least two hundred so disfranehi-sd-
That n large number of VOTERS who I'M
tended to exercise their s-ffrags I'm favor
of the undersigned were deprived OF
such privilege under the following cur
cumstancess During the latter part of
September, lSS6. and mp to and inelud-
ING the lst Of November, 1885, theEe
was posted in the County Clerks efHses
of Los Angeles county. and In other
public places of tina county. card. rum
ming as follows:
.svorERs. All persons whose na@es
are not already on the Great Register OF
this county. and wishing to vote Mt the
coming election. must be Registered On
or before October 2ad. 1885, at whlsa
time the Great Register will be closed
AZ per s. etion Ills Political Code c.
II. .Dunsmoor, County Clerk OF lsss
Angeles county. California
By MIR. C. H. puRsnoors lnztr1e-
tions, notices were printed IN the Saaly
papers of the city and the county tn the
effect that all unregistered vossrs @1s1
register by the End OF Ostober or lose
their right to vote mt the eHeetlon m the
salla..s,,ez Naxa=.he- Tha.sa zalIeass sci